D-Day

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb Max Hastings,Sunday Times
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This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear

The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was awesome and what followed was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side.

Antony Beevors inimitably gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war. He lands the reader on the beach alongside the heroes whose stories he so masterfully renders in their full terrifying glory.
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A thrilling story, with all Beevors narrative masteryChris Patten, Financial Times

Beevors D-Day has all the qualities that have made his earlier works so successful: an eye for telling and unusual detail, an ability to make complex events understandable, and a wonderful graphic styleIan Kershaw, Guardian, Books of the Year

D-Days phenomenal success is both understandable and justifiedJames Holland

D-Day is a triumph . . . on almost every page theres some little detail that sticks in the mind or tweaks the heart. This is a terrific, inspiring, heart-breaking bookSam Leith, Daily Mail